Kentech has been awarded a contract for commissioning and start up work on a large liquefaction project project in Southwest, Louisiana.
Kentech’s scope of work consists of supplying commissioning services from pre-commissioning, technical writing, dynamic logic testing of PLC’s and Distributed Control System (DCS) support. Our System Owners are responsible for tracking progress through all phases of commissioning and turnover of systems. Kentech automation specialists are responsible for verifying that graphics and logic are correct during instrument loop and functional testing. Our field technicians are verifying proper installation, and functionality of instruments, valves and local PLC panels. Kentech have also been completing loop testing across the facility in both the greenfield and brownfield environments.
Kentech is committed to delivering the technical field services required to achieve our client’s goal of providing safe, efficient and cost effective natural gas liquefaction and regasification in the Gulf Coast. “This project represents the continued confidence that our clients are showing in Kentech’s commissioning and start up capabilities in North America,” said David Touhey, Service Line Director, STS, Kentech Group.
Kentech are pleased to continue the safe delivery of commissioning field services to our client and look forward to the successful start-up of the LNG facility.
Kentech is a privately owned energy and industrial services provider. Our core capabilities are construction, commissioning and maintenance across a multi-discipline range of services. With a heritage dating back to 1919, Kentech was founded in 1993 to provide engineering contracting services globally and today works on some of the world’s largest projects in the Petrochemical and Oil and Gas sector.

Kentech Sakhalin Technical Services is happy to announce that in April 2014 it has been awarded the hook-up and commissioning works on the Berkut platform of the Arkutun Dagi project executed by ExxonNeftegasLimited.
This platform is an offshore, ice-resistant fixed platform which is expected to become the largest oil and gas production platform in Russia. This gravity-based structure has been named Berkut - from the Russian for golden eagle. Its topsides will be among the largest in the industry, weighing about 28,000 tons.
For this scope of work Kentech Sakhalin Technical Services will have approximately 120 people for the hook-up and commissioning works on the Berkut platform when it positioned on its gravity based structure which is in the Arkutun Dagi Field off the East Cost of Sakhalin Island. The services provided by KSTS will include; project management, skilled tradesman, on-shore support, procurement of materials and On & Off - shore calibrations of instruments and equipment.